Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-05-13
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

The Huron copper mine stamp mill is 10
be rebuilt at once.
Nashville has been made United States
signal service station.
On the LIST inst. there were sos convicts
in the Jackson prison.
The Belding silk factory has more orders
than it can fill at present.
The appraised valuation OF the Jackson
prison property is $4,000.
The Jackson canoe club are TO hold a
state regatta this summer.
Tilbert Roth has been appointed custo-
dian OF the university museum.
Forest fires have done considerable dam
age in Ogemaw county this spring
The West Michigan Fruit Growers
society meets at Douglass June 1928.
The old Fourth Michigan Infantry will
hold a reunion at Ann Arbor June %
One hundred miners at the Iron King
mine in Ironwood have struck for back
pay.
Martin Brennan. ex sheriff OF Bay coun-
ty is dead. lie was an old resident of Bay
county.
The old seminary building in Fenton is
being remodeled into home for Baptist
ministers.
The Grand Commandery Knights Tenn
plar will hold its annual meeting in Grand
Rapids May l0-ll.
The bridge over the Detroit. Bay City
q Alpena railroad over the dam at AL
pena, is completed.
James b. Thorn has been appointed
postmaster at Hudson, vice ". I. b.
Schermerhorn deceased.
Chas Weber for nearly half a century
a resident of Brainbridge, st. Joseph
county. has passed away.
The Lowell cutter works have been re
moved TO Grand Haven where new works
are 70 be erected at once.
Mrs. Sarah X. Hayes. pioneer of Ka'a-
mazoo. dropped dead the other day while
CONVEX. ing with her sister.
The treasury department decides that
material for the Sault bridge, landed on
this side, is subject to duty.
Miss Mcdonald Of Lake Linden, who had
both legs cut off by an ore car has recov-
cred from the shock, and will live.
Mayor Shackleton Of Saginaw City is to
be investigated" for his alleged connec-
ton with the Dakin bribery business.
Col. H. NJ Dufiield of Detroit has been
chosen orator at the eighteenth annual re-
union Of the army of the Cumberland
Chas Mooney of Convis. Calhoun coun-
ty has been arrested, charged with forging
his wife's name to a cnattel mortgage
The Tuscola county agricultural society
will hold a stock show May $500 There
will be several speed premiums offered.
l.. :. Edison Michigan man. has been
appointed a copyist in the patent Office at
Washington, at salary of $500 per anum.
Sarah Mclean, the Jackson woman &C
cused of an attempt 10 poison family
with whom she had lived, has been &C
quilted.
Leroy Carr was killed near Greenville
the other day while sinking stone on l..
Woodrufs farm. The stone fell on Carr,
breaking his neck.
Col. Thos =. Sprague for more than 4
years closely identified with Michigan. and
particularly Detroit, died at his home in
that city on the 2d inst
The jury in the case of Fred Joslyn, the
Henderson school teacher who shot Thos.
Morrison failed to agree, standing five
for conviction and seven for acquittal.
Lille Ketchum, the young woman who
was found half starved in Smith Sanford's
rancho in Grand Rapids. has since died
Dissipation and brutal treatment ended
her life.
The state amendment association has is
sued a call for a mass state convention Of
all temperance people, ire 'pective Of po-
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May II and i.
The amount OF primary school interest
fund distributed TO the several counties
Of the state in the semi annual apportion-
ment Just made, s36l.213. The rate per
capita is 60 cents.
Frank Collins, young man, jumped
from a Michigan Central train near ROYAL
Oak while it was running at the rate OF
forty miles an hour. He received injuries
which will prove fatal.
Walter c. Cole of Coldwater pleaded
guilty 70 perjury in connection with the
alleged conspiracy case to kill the old man
! Davis. and has been sentenced TO seven
years in Jackson prison.
J. II. Healy and f. T. Edwards, saloon
men of Ithaca, have been he'd for trial at
the next term OF the United States court
on charge of selling liquor without pay
ing the government tax.
The large hotel barn, barber shop and a
large private residence belonging toJerome
Davis, proprietor Of the Standish house at
Standi,h, was burned a few days ago by
an incendiary, il is thought.
Memorial services were held in the AL
tion college chapel sunday evening. May
l. in honor of David Preston and Rev. +.
II. Pitcher. DR. l.. r. Fiske Or. Smart
and W. II. Brockway gave brief addresses.
Ex Senator Ferry of Grand Haven is
in California Iecturing on his travels ia
the Holy Land and in Europe, and gave an
account of Bethlemen and Jerusalem re
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